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Terahertz spectroscopy: the new tool to help detect art fraud

  • Written by Roger Lewis, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong
imageThe pigments can look very different when viewed with terahertz 'eyes'. Shutterstock/Garry0305

When we look at a painting, how do we know it’s a genuine piece of art?

Everything we see with the unaided eye in a painting – from the Australian outback images of Albert Namatjira or Russell Drysdale, to the vibrant works of Pro Hart –...

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Fairytale no more: when love turns to hatefully ever after

  • Written by Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageLittle good comes when love turns to hate.Shutterstock

It’s often said that the opposite to love is not hate, it’s indifference. Why then are some of us so seemingly fickle in our ability to switch from love to hate in an instant?

To understand hate, we must first (try to) understand love.

Psychologists are not even in agreement that...

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Australia’s biggest emitters opt to 'wait and see' over Emissions Reduction Fund

  • Written by Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Lecturer in Accounting, Swinburne University of Technology

Many of Australia’s most carbon-intensive companies are either not participating in the federal government’s flagship Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), or are adopting a wait-and-see approach, according to our survey of senior executives.

The ERF, introduced in 2014 after the repeal of the carbon tax, is the central component in the...

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Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017

  • Written by Jess Carniel, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland

For one week in May, the bleary-eyed in our workplaces are not the sports fans following northern hemisphere leagues, nor are they the new parents. They are Eurovision fans. And we are legion.

The Eurovision Song Contest offers its fans glitz (or at least glitter), glamour, politics, intrigue, increasingly limited lessons in how to count in French...

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  1. Massive global ransomware attack highlights faults and the need to be better prepared
  2. Former FBI director James Comey very likely caused Trump's win
  3. Drug testing welfare recipients raises questions about data profiling and discrimination
  4. Black is the New White gives the comedy of manners an irreverent makeover
  5. Two years after the earthquake, why has Nepal failed to recover?
  6. The federal budget doesn't do enough to save free-to-air TV
  7. Weekly Quiz: what is Colony Collapse Disorder?
  8. Don't be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee
  9. Remembering Bill Tutte: another brilliant codebreaker from World War II
  10. Should we worry about Islamism in Indonesia?
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the 2017 budget
  12. Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings
  13. Every critic counts: why Fairfax must keep its arts journalists
  14. Why media reform in Australia has been so hard to achieve
  15. La théologie a-t-elle sa place à l’université ?
  16. Shorten fights on fairness in budget reply, but will it be enough?
  17. Friday essay: smile and stay thin – life as a 60s air hostess
  18. Not a lizard nor a dinosaur, tuatara is the sole survivor of a once-widespread reptile group
  19. Found: 'lost' forests covering an area two-thirds the size of Australia
  20. Assessment design won’t stop cheating, but our relationships with students might
  21. There's a strong link between anxiety and depression, and sleep problems, and it goes both ways
  22. Budget 2017 charts new social and affordable housing agenda
  23. Grattan on Friday: With Malcolm Turnbull in pursuit, Bill Shorten decides to run faster
  24. Labor to oppose Medicare levy for lower and middle earners
  25. Vale Mark Colvin: eternal optimist and journalistic force of nature
  26. Budget 2017: welfare changes stigmatise recipients and are sitting on shaky ground
  27. Mental health funding in the 2017 budget is too little, unfair and lacks a coherent strategy
  28. The 2017 budget has axed research to help Australia adapt to climate change
  29. Aussies don't always copy the US - unlike Americans, our self-esteem has stayed the same since the 70s
  30. Budget 2017: a glimmer of support for innovation and advanced manufacturing
  31. Budget 2017: lack of competition is why government is moving so hard against the banks
  32. Speaking with: Mia Woodruff about using 3D printing to replace body parts
  33. Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you're a Tasmanian devil
  34. The off-topic Conversation #122
  35. Explainer: how the brain changes when we learn to read
  36. Humane and intimate, how the Red Cross helped families trace the fates of WW2 soldiers
  37. How our gut bacteria affect cancer risk and response to treatment
  38. Budget needs a sharper policy scalpel to help first home buyers
  39. Islam and feminism are not mutually exclusive, and faith can be an important liberator
  40. Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword
  41. Sustainable shopping: with the right tools, you can find an eco-friendly car
  42. Banks may squeal about new tax but they are outgunned
  43. Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann and Anna Bligh on the new bank tax
  44. Senate inquiry told zero tax or royalties paid on Australia's biggest new gas projects
  45. 'Short-sighted' budget means universities can't deliver their full economic benefit
  46. Budget bank levy: too big to fail, not too big to take a hit
  47. From breaking glass to chest bursting, the scientists' review of Alien: Covenant
  48. Australian media at a crossroads amid threats to diversity and survival
  49. Terror, Muslims, and a culture of fear: challenging the media messages
  50. Is this the budget that forgot renters?

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